The New International Encyclopædia/Lexis, Wilhelm

LEX′IS, Wilhelm (1837—). A German political economist, born at Eschweiler, near Aix-la-Chapelle. He studied mathematics and natural science at the University of Bonn, and in 1861 went to Paris, where the economics of France chiefly claimed his attention. He was appointed professor of political economy at the University of Strassburg in 1872, and accepted a call to the chair in the same branch at Dorpat in 1874, at Freiburg in 1876, at Breslau in 1884, and at Göttingen in 1887. A partial list of his writings includes: Einleitung in die Theorie der Bevölkerungsstatistik (1875); Zur Theorie der Massenerscheinungen in der menschlichen Gesellschaft (1877); Die Wirkung der Getreidezölle (1889); Der gegenwärtige Stand der Währungsfrage (1896); Die neuen französischen Universitäten (1901). In collaboration with others he edited Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaft (7 vols., 2d ed., Jena, 1898-1901).